"You can't use up creativity, the more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou
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| Harvest Time, fluid acrylic and watercolor, by April M. Rimpo |
Harvest Time
Fluid Acrylic and Watercolor
28" X 32" painting
$2200
$2200
When out walking near my home in Maryland I got an
inspiration for this painting. I had
noticed earlier in the day that a tractor was in a neighbor’s field. Some of the wheat had been plowed, but most
was still in the field. I decided it was
a good opportunity to get some tractor pictures so I took my camera with me. I had gotten a new zoom lens that went to 300
and thought I would try it out. After I
photographed the tractor I walked past another field where the wheat was right
next to the road. I noticed the
beautiful range of gold, blue and green colors in the wheat and took some photos. While photographing the wheat I thought it
would be fun to play with overlaying the tractor on the close-up of the
wheat. This would result in an
interesting texture under the tractor.
When I got home I tried it and the design for Harvest Time was born.
I painted the wheat first using fluid acrylic so the wheat
pattern would not diffuse when I paint the tractor over the wheat. The tractor was done in watercolor. Since the wheat is primarily golden I wanted
a blue and purple tractor to create a nice complement to the wheat. The tractor I had photographed was blue and
green, so I replaced the green parts of the tractor with purple. Not a color that would be typical in a
tractor but I believe combining the purple with the blue made it believable and
provided an exciting contrast with the surrounding wheat.
Below are two photographs of the work in progress. The first shows only the acrylic painting of the close up wheat (Masking fluid still on the painting), the second shows the painting after the tractor was added and the masking fluid removed, but before I have painted on the masked areas to integrate these lighter passages.
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| Harvest Time WIP: Acrylic background of close-up wheat |
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| Harvest Time WIP: After adding watercolor combine and removing much of the masking fluid |
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This is lovely! What a clever idea to do the overlay.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Liesel. It was fun to do. It is one of my larger paintings. I tend to be a lot more experimental on those. I didn't mention it in my writeup but I did apply some Daniel Smith Watercolor medium to some areas of the painting to create some texture of wheat before I painted the acrylic. You can't see the texture in the photo, but it is in areas around the tractor.
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